Jessica Knouse

Professor of Law

Professor Jessica Knouse joined the College of Law faculty in fall 2007. She teaches
courses in Constitutional Law, Family Law, Reproductive Technology and Law, and Sexuality and Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between constitutional law and family
law, and she has published articles on topics including the law's influence on civil
marriage, reproductive rights, identity politics, intersexuality, preimplantation
genetic diagnosis, and posthumous conception.

She received her B.A. from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, where
she majored in Latin and English. She received her J.D. from Albany Law School, where
she was Production Editor of the Albany Law Review and valedictorian of her graduating
class. She worked as an Appellate Court Attorney for the New York State Supreme Court,
Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, and as a Law Clerk for Justice Howard
H. Dana Jr. of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. She received her LL.M. from Yale
Law School.